Academy Award for Best Sound 1981
53rd Academy Awards · held March 31, 1981 · 5 nominees
- Winner Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · Bill Varney, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton, Steve Maslow
- Nominee Altered States · Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton
- Nominee Coal Miner's Daughter · James R. Alexander, Richard Portman, Roger Heman
- Nominee Fame · Aaron Rochin, Chris Newman, Jay M. Harding, Michael J. Kohut
- Nominee Raging Bull · David J. Kimball, Donald O. Mitchell, Les Lazarowitz, William "Bill" Nicholson